PAST CONVERSATION

Antonio Pulgarín and Daniel Handal

Date:
September 23, 2021

PAST CONVERSATION

Antonio Pulgarín and Daniel Handal

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To commemorate 2020 Workspace Resident Antonio Pulgarín’s exhibition, Baxter St is pleased to host a conversation between Antonio Pulgarín and artist Daniel Handal on Thursday, September 23rd, at 6 PM. Pulgarín’s show, Lost Throughout The Pages (Whispers of the Caballeros), is on view from through October 6th at 126 Baxter St.

This conversation is free to attend and will take place over Zoom.

About Antonio Pulgarín

Antonio Pulgarín (b. 1989) is a Colombian-American lens-based artist who utilizes photography, photographic collage, and mixed media in his practice. Pulgarín mounted his first solo exhibition at Kingsborough Art Museum in the fall of 2019. Pulgarín’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Aperture Foundation, Longwood Art Gallery, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, BRIC, and Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. His work has received honors from YoungArts, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, EnFoco, The Magenta Foundation, Latin American Fotografia, American Photography, and PDN Photo Annual. 

Pulgarín’s work has been featured in publications such as ViceUnSeen MagazineVisual Arts JournalBESESlateLensCulture and The Huffington Post. He received his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and is currently based in Seattle, Washington. Pulgarín was named a 2019 Fellow of the AIM Fellowship program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Pulgarín will also be showcasing this work at the Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial from October 20, 2021 – January 16, 2022.

About Daniel Handal

Daniel Handal is a Honduran born artist who lives and works in New York. He received his BS in Applied Sciences from Rutgers University and studied Photography at the International Center of Photography. Handal’s work centers on portraiture and explores issues around identity, desire and representation. His work has been exhibited nationally at ClampArt, New York, NY; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX; The powerHouse Arena, New York, NY; and internationally at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia; and MKII, London, UK. Handal’s work has been written about in The New York Times, HuffPost, Slate and Hyperallergic, among others. He has participated in residencies at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY;  and the Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY. Handal serves on the board of directors of Baxter St and is represented by ClampArt in New York. His website is danielhandal.com

Date:
September 23, 2021